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how to tell a friend who is convinced they're an amazing writer that the reason why they keep getting rejected from writing pieces for sites is because their writing is absolutely godawful.......

oh yeah, because your mpreg stucky coffeehouse au epic is a bastion of quality and skill

80% of rpers are shitty writers, news at 11

That escalated quickly.

not really. i'm just tired of people shitting on others for actually chasing The Dream(tm) and hiding behind the term "friend" when, no, clearly not, because friends don't call each other godawful writers

If you make it clear that you can't handle crit, then expect your friends to ladle out only praise, not only are you doing yourself a disservice, of COURSE they are going to blow off steam somewhere before they have to go back to patting your butt for you.

If you're really serious about chasing the dream, learn to take crit or risk languishing in an eddy of lower quality writing.

Uh, I love when my friends give me criticism?

only because you think you're capable of improving. nobody's going to take the news "your writing is godawful" well, and it has nothing to do with skin thickness.

Why would they come to wg to critique their friend? They came here to remark frankly on them. If they got too specific with language 1. It'd make it obvious to their friend that it was them when the same critiques appear in their inbox as appeared here and 2. They'd potentially out them by describing their writing quirks and failings.

This is a remark on how they struggle to critique them, not an actual sample of their critiquing method.

... look at where you're posting. this is rpa.

The gripe still stands that they're venting here because they can't critique, not that this is how they would treat an actual request for constructive criticism.

Granted if it was then they need to sit on it and twist, but I get the feeling that if they felt they could bring up the matter without their friend getting shit-flinging mad at them, they'd go to more effort to point out what they think could use fixing and how.

I refuse!

i have this same problem.

my acquaintance is obsessed with getting attention for their original fiction, but their stories are just... bad. what's frustrating is that you can't point out problems in their work because they're known for kicking up a shitstorm and threatening to cut contact with you forever if they sense even a hint of criticism. all they want and expect is blind praise, and may god help you if they don't get it.

and when i say their work is bad, i'm talking like... twilight-level shit, but maybe slightly less comprehensible. speaking in terms of prose, they're not the worst i've seen, but they're nothing special. in terms of content, though... their work hugely pretentious, yet at the same time unrestrained and juvenile. their basic m.o seems to be "let's cram as many stupid cliche ideas as possible into one story but play it up like it's the most profound and genius thing imaginable". they've got this story about angels/demons/vampires/aliens (yes, all of them) and they're talking about adding a government conspiracy/time travel subplot and i'm here thinking to myself, dude, chill.

...also, did i mention all the characters are furries for no reason and some of the angels/demons are in dramatic gay hate ships with each other? i bet you think i'm making shit up now. i'm not.

That does sound pretty bad, but at the same time Twilight is an inspirational story about how someone's barely cleaned up masturbation folder can become a wildly successful property, so maybe there's hope for your friend.

the sad thing is, i don't think they could handle fame even if it magically dropped in their lap like it did for stephenie meyer. i'm pretty sure that once their work became popular and people had free reign to mock/criticize/tear it apart at leisure, they'd pull an anne rice and go batshit. that's just how they are. they used to come to me freaking out about how so-and-so didn't give them glowing praise after they convinced them to read their story, and some of the things people said to them weren't even that bad. it was crit like "i couldn't follow the plot" and the like. the level of internet unadulterated douchebaggery they'd experience should their work go truly mainstream would probably send them into a complete nuclear meltdown.

they keep pushing and begging for me to read their work and tell them what i think. and what they don't know is that i've already read it. i just don't want to tell them what i think. i don't want to lie to them, but i don't want to be the next target of their immature idiocy. it's such an awkward position to be in.

i might know who you're talking about. wonder if anyone has ever flat out told them? it would probably suck to hear it, but maybe you should find a way to phrase it as nicely as possible. sometimes the best thing you can do for a person is to tell them to stop ice skating uphill.

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